remit
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The figures cover those larger illegal sites for which the Environment Agency is responsible, and do not include confiscation orders for smaller fly-tipping offences, which fall under the remit of local authorities.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
She said some are met with disbelief which can be particularly "damaging", while even when the trauma is recognised others are told they are "too complex, unsuitable or outside the remit of available services."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The legislation vastly expanded the FDA’s remit and imposed hefty food-safety compliance burdens on hundreds of thousands of farms and food producers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Food-borne illnesses spread despite the FDA’s vastly expanded remit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The remit was another harsh fact of life.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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Those remits have typically limited the IOC’s ability or willingness to tackle host nations beyond specific sports issues like organizing events and preparing venues.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
But it could mean sharp declines in a key metric watched closely by elected official: the profits that the central bank remits to the U.S.
From Reuters ● May 27, 2022
If these assistants had smaller remits, they might be easier to build.
From The Verge ● Aug. 28, 2019
One of the Sheila Foundation’s remits will be to support The Countess Report, which has collected data on male-female ratios in Australian art since 2008.
From The Guardian ● May 27, 2019
Brown University has over a hundred tuition scholarships and a loan fund; often remits room rent in return for services about the college buildings; requires studiousness and economy in the case of assisted students.
From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
The policy was well designed: shipowners could have those fees remitted if they ordered a U.S.-built vessel within three years.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025
California’s gratuity law requires that tips be remitted in full to non-managerial service staff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
The High Court overturned the tribunal's decision, remitted it for a fresh decision to be made, and the Police Appeals Tribunal's final decision was that Sgt Flint should receive a final written warning.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2022
It then oversaw meal distribution, sent the state claims for reimbursement and remitted the federal funds back to its partners, according to the Justice Department.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2022
On this occasion the king released political prisoners, remitted taxes, endowed temples, forgave rebels, increased military preparedness and, in short, did all the things that modern rulers do when they wish to stay in office.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Future studies could look at whether those receiving pain treatment are receiving mental health care and whether that care is remitting symptoms.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2023
For those whose relapsing remitting form of the disease develops into progressive MS, only some are eligible to the one form of treatment available.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2023
The foundation sued PJT the following year, claiming the bank had been negligent in failing to more closely supervise Caspersen after he delayed in remitting the $8.1 million fee to the bank.
From Reuters ● Jun. 13, 2023
Just from listening to him every day, he’s by no means remitting conspiracy theories and false rhetoric on his show.
From The Verge ● Dec. 7, 2021
I wrote oftener than he answered, sometimes remitting him his share of old fees, sometimes dilating on national affairs, but generally confining myself to local politics and news in and around Springfield.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by William H. Herndon
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